[107157] in Cypherpunks
Re: SCSI disk failure....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Mon Jan 4 02:53:43 1999
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 23:14:39 -0800
To: "Bernardo B. Terrado" <bbt@mudspring.uplb.edu.ph>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9901041310070.15197-100000@mudspring.uplb.ed
u.ph>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 01:12 PM 1/4/99 +0800, Bernardo B. Terrado wrote:
>What are the chances of retrieving most if not all of the data in a
>server?
"I hate it when that happens" :-)
The chances are very good if you've been doing regular backups;
otherwise it depends on how lucky you are and whether there are
disk driver recovery vendors who you can find easily.
Typical costs around San Francisco are around $100 for an estimate,
and typically $1000 to recover the data that they can get
if they think they can do the job and you want to spend the money.
It also depends on what went wrong, and how badly -
if you're *very* lucky, the failure isn't the disk, just the
built-in controller card, and it didn't bother the disk at all.
If you've very *unlucky*, the controller scribbled bad data
all over the disk as it was dying, and then told the heads to crash :-)
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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